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Metabolic testing
Last week one of my friends said that his 16 year old son fainted before dinner and whacked his head pretty solid. The next day I asked him how everything was going and he said his son was doing much better and going in for testing (today). I thought man I’ve been a malnourished 16 year old kid before and fainted, so I gathered the courage to talk to him about his eating habits and physical activity. Turns out he is into many sports and farm activities and only weighs 120 lbs @ 6’ tall. I didn’t want to overstep but also lightly suggested he should get some metabolic testing along with the other recommended tests. Today we learned that his heart, lungs, brain, equilibrium, hearing… are all great. The metabolic tests revealed that his BMR is 2500! The kid could eat 4 pizzas a day with those numbers (not my advice lol). I was so happy to hear that he’s doing well today and he started a meal plan to gain the deficit. I became so passionate about offering the PFU program free to kiddos today. Starting off small with free family fitness, sauna and cold plunge soonšŸ”„ā„ļø. Like this weekend soon!! My wife and I look forward to this journey together with the amazing folks with @David Bidler at PFU.
1 like • May '25
This is great, @Adam Rochefort good luck with the family fitness, sauna and cold plunge how has it gone this weekend? Super impressed nice work, making changes šŸ‘Š
1 like • May '25
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Breathe classes
Tell us more @Phill Ireland what happened in your breathe classes… @David Bidler keeps hinting by but I want more, far more šŸ˜‰šŸ˜œ
3 likes • May '25
Hi @Rach Friedli thank you for the message. So much has happened in the year and 3 months I have been running the breathing classes. I followed @David Bidler s oush to get out into my community and just start, I had wanted to help my community so this was just the push I needed. The classes are a nice mixture, we have people of all generations 80 year olds to 8 and 10 year olds. People struggling with anxiety, the pace of life, panic attacks, the list could go on. The space is now a little santury for people, now when people come into the room (we breathibg rate count often to begin) and many are already at 3-4 breaths per minute, they have found that the room is now a place for them to stop. Adults and kids who say they can't sit still lie motionless for 30 minutes. People with bad backs relax so much they chose to lie on the floor and get up mobile and refreshed. I've got pro golfers now putting better, I've people in aa and ca now with more coping mechanisms. It is so rewarding. I have taught 4 and 5 year olds in the class how to regulate their energy state with their breath and had the class jumping up and down then 5 minutes later yawning. I have done a corporate well-being 2 day workshop for a big company in London. We most of the time get to discussing well-being in many other varied ways, such as diet, mediation, movement, nature. Some of the comments and posts have been so lovely to hear the impact it has and is still making. I had a class breather have to have an mri scan (he was very nervous) it was a 50 minute scan, on top of the concern of having bowel cancer now. He settled in and went through a breathing pattern I showed him. He was awoken at the end of the scan as he had fallen asleep. Another member one day started feeling overwhelmed and panicked, but had the skills to bring himself down quickly. By getting into your community ypu can serve people all around you, you will probably understand some of what they are going through as you geographically live in a similar area. I love the 2 minute walk to and from the class. It won't always go to plan, and feel uncomfortable but that's where the growth is.
Everyone’s Favorite Barefoot Shoes
In our deep dive last week, someone suggested we start a thread with everyone’s favorite brands. That was a great idea, so maybe those of us who wear barefoot/minimalist shoes can drop recommendations in the comments. Cheers!
4 likes • Nov '24
I'm a fan of merrell shoes they are often cheaper if you get last years. I love the vapour glove model. These are lightweight, zero drop, zero stack and a great tread as they are put together for trails. I hope this helps
3 likes • Nov '24
If ypu love wearing barefoot style shoes but suffer with raynauds (and cold feet) these thermal insoles are brilliant
Reflections on Module 3
Hey team, Just figured out the discussion boards šŸ˜… I went through the module, and I have a few sporadic thoughts I want to share while it’s fresh: -I’m really excited to talk about how to educate kids on this. Sleep is one of those things we can’t really give them an experience with as we can with movement and breathing — and we can’t follow them home — but it’s the most important thing. Can’t wait to dive in to how we help them! -I love sleep trackers/journals. As with other modules, I’m loving the simplicity around this (templates I’ve used for courses/carts around sleep science were great but cumbersome). Categorizing sleep blockers and starters is just so brilliantly straightforward, and focusing just on the most common ones removes a lot of the weeds. -I wonder about your thoughts, @David Bidler , on the dangers of wearables interfering with self-trust, intuition, and/or interoception. I’ve very little experience with them, but I’ve read some recent articles about how your general evaluation on how you slept is a better indicator than wearable data. And I do have colleagues in the breath/sleep science space who have worn a different brand on each wrist and woke up to totally different data. In everyones’s experience, where’s the line between this being useful empowering data and it being sort of a crutch, especially for young people (again coming from someone with almost no experience using them for sleep)? -Lastly, I’ll just add another sleep starter for anyone who’s interested, which is the idea of ā€œstate anchoring.ā€ As the brain is a prediction machine, linking a specific stimulus to bedtime time can aid the brain and body in winding down. Example: If you turn off overhead light and put on the same relaxing music an hour before bed, you’ll begin to anchor a parasympathetic state to those stimuli (could be anything). As always, looking forward to rich thoughts and discussions!
2 likes • Nov '24
I think what's interesting is it can be used to build greater introspection. As many tools we use such as calorie trackers and step trackers, they can help you find a base line and from there you can grow your introspection. Nice about the anchoring for sure, I have found all routines add together to build into better patterns of behaviour so sleep, food, exercise. I hope this helps
Podcast interview with Nicole SciaccašŸŽ™ļø
Team, I recently had the pleasure of talking with Nicole Sciacca on her podcast about our work at Physiology FirstšŸŽ™ļø It was a wider ranging discussion than I’ve had in previous interviews, and we had a blast exploring the skills and tools that youth and adults need to thrive in the modern world. Sharing it below in the event that you want to give a listen or pass it along to someone interested in our mission at Physiology FirstšŸŒšŸ§ šŸ”„ https://open.spotify.com/episode/0KB9nKR83JwQXAi2UyZ6mD?si=Ry9h-OYtQ5qVFOuuJf4axg&t=358
1 like • Oct '24
@David Bidler another brilliant interview as always you inspire, teach and enlighten. So grateful to be a leader within this amazing movement led by your good self. Thank you šŸ™
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Phill Ireland
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I am a well-being coach based in South-East England. My focus is health development using a process of lifestyle improvements, massage & movement.

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